Yoga
Subtitle: the art of transformation
By: Debra Diamond ; with contributions by Molly Emma Aitken ... [et al.].
Contributors: Aitken, Molly Emma; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution); Freer Gallery of Art; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Cleveland Museum of Art
Publisher: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780934686266; 9781588344595
Subjects: Indic Art; Themes, motives; Yoga in art; Exhibitions
Notes: "Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation, October 19, 2013-January 26, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 22-May 18, 2014, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22-September 7, 2014."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Essays.; title: Yoga: the art of transformation  -- Debra Diamond; title: Yoga in transformation  -- David Gordon White; title: From guru to god: yogic prowess and places of practice in early-medieval India  -- Tamara I. Sears; title: Muslim interpreters of yoga  -- Carl W. Ernst; title: Yogis in Mughal India  -- James Mallinson; title: Yoga, bodybuilding, and wrestling: metaphysical fitness  -- Joseph S. Alter; title: Globalized modern yoga -- Mark Singleton; title: Catalogue. Pt. 1. The path of yoga. Manifestations of Shiva ; Portraying the guru ; Yoginis ; Nath Siddhas ; Jain yoga: nonviolence for karmic purification ; Yoga and tapas: the Buddhists and Ajivikas ; Austerities ; Meditation ; Asana ; The cosmic body ; The subtle body ; The militant ascetic body ; Illusion and reality in the Yoga vasishta; title: Pt. 2. Landscapes of yoga. Ashram and math ; Pilgrimage ; The cremation ground; title: Pt. 3. Yoga in the Indian imagination, 16th-19th century. Yogis in the literary imagination ; Transcendence and desire in Ragamala paintings ; Mughal albums; title: Pt. 4. Yoga in the transnational imagination, 18th-20th century. Company paintings ; Colonial photography ; The bed of nails: the exotic across borders and media ; Fakirs, fakers, and magic; title: Pt. 5. Modern transformations. Vivekananda and rational spirituality ; Medical yoga ; Modern postural yoga.